Operations Manager Jobs in Durham, NC

Leads vaccine and therapeutic manufacturing operations across rotating shifts. Manages, coaches, and develops manufacturing personnel; supports process execution, troubleshooting, continuous improvement, scheduling, staffing, quality, safety, compliance, and budget objectives. Ensures accurate manufacturing-system transactions, facilitates shift communication, supports audits, and serves as a process subject matter expert. Requires manufacturing leadership experience, willingness to work rotating shifts, and ability to support classified manufacturing areas.

Manages daily office operations, administrative workflows, facilities, vendors, budgets, client service, communications, events, and workplace standards. Leads administrative assistants and receptionists, ensures office coverage, conducts performance reviews, supports onboarding and firm initiatives, and partners with leadership on operational priorities. Requires strong organization, discretion, communication, project management, and change-management skills, plus Microsoft 365 proficiency and willingness to work primarily in-office.

Leads commercial operations for pharmaceutical client engagements, including project delivery, team management, data process enhancements, analytics, reporting, client relationships, proposals, financial tracking, and business development. Directs teams producing dashboards, reports, alerts, and scorecards; applies coding and visualization tools to improve data processes. Provides life sciences commercial expertise, mentors employees, manages risks and budgets, and supports recruiting and organizational initiatives.

Leads country-level execution of complex oncology clinical trials, including site selection, recruitment, vendor and budget oversight, regulatory approvals, patient safety, data quality, inspection readiness, and CAPA implementation. Serves as the primary country-level Sponsor contact, coordinates local teams and investigators, manages operational risks, supports informed consent documentation, and mentors trial staff while ensuring compliance with ICH-GCP, Sponsor SOPs, protocols, and local regulations.

Manages treasury operations, cash management, daily account funding, liquidity investments, cash-flow forecasting, banking relationships, and bank service negotiations. Oversees Treasury Analysts, develops cash management policies and controls, supports treasury-related projects, and ensures compliance, business continuity, and process documentation. The role also monitors banking and insurance regulations and identifies opportunities to improve liquidity and payment efficiency.

Manage and develop a clinical operations team supporting clinical studies: resource allocation, onboarding and training, performance management, quality oversight, SOP training, corrective actions, workload and quality metrics reporting, cross-functional collaboration, and participation in process improvement initiatives.